is the time of year where people think about helping the needy. martha's kitchen in san jose, is a soup kitchen which provides free meals to the needy twice a week. the food is donated by the second harvest food bank. marthas kitchen says it serves close to 25 thousand people a month. martha's kitchen opened in 1981 and officials say the need grows every year. dennis leyva, who has been with martha's kitchen for 19 years has experienced the growth. "it started in a garage a few blocks away, and umm, ive been here 19 years now, ive seen it really grown from, more than, its double what it was, from where i started, were doing like 25,000 meals a year, when i started, and were doing close to that a month now." 2nd harvest foodbank, which provides food for santa clara and san mateo county is a non-profit organization formed in 1974. 2nd harvest is comitted to feeding everyone who is hungry. "2nd harvest food bank is currently feeding 250,000 people every month, and thats just in santa clara/san mateo counties. thats 10 percent of the entire population, its millions of pounds of food to make
